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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Best Watch Yourself
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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Care Choice Yourself
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Magic Reality Sweat
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
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Age Bad Improvement News Wine
In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
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Disappointment Expectation Failure Greatness Himself Problem Word
Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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Opportunity Optimistic Yourself
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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Best Freedom Willing Yourself
Don’t just count your days, make your days count.
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Count Days Yourself
It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.
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Change Discussion Friendship Ourselves Role
Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.
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Accomplishment Latest Management Mission Team

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